The project is now getting on its way to completion, and preliminary results will be made available over the next few months. Two more papers submitted to the LAC2014 conference proceedings on modelling animal husbandry and demography are scheduled to be published in April 2016. For now, we want to draw your attention to an overview lecture given by Philip Verhagen on Nov 10, and to the presentation given by Mark Groenhuijzen at the CAA-NL/FL conference on Oct 22 in Amsterdam on simulating local transport networks. We will also present the first results of the project for a Dutch audience at the Romeinensymposium on Dec 18 in Amsterdam.

The archaeological database is now completed. All in all, we have identified and checked more than 1500 Roman sites, of which some 1300 will be retained for site location analysis. We intend to publish a paper on the issue of database uncertainty in the course of 2016, and are looking into options of making the data publicly available after completion of the project.

At LAC2014 we have presented two papers: Mark Groenhuijzen spoke about “Exploring the dynamics of transport in the Dutch limes” in session 6, and Jamie Joyce presented the paper “Simulating the farm: a role for computational modeling of the agricultural economy of a landscape?” in session 12. The papers were received well, with Mark winning a third prize and Jamie an honourable mention for their talks!